Drake hasn’t acted much in recent years, having filled most of the time since he dropped out of Degrassi: The Next Generation about a decade ago by becoming, well, one of the most successful musicians on the planet. (Which isn’t to discount his important and powerful cameo work in Anchorman 2 and Ice Age: Continental…

Although HBO’s How To With John Wilson is very much its own show—with New York filmmaker Wilson wandering the streets of his hometown, filming whatever oddities catch his eye while loosely exploring a “How to?” theme—it definitely carries some of the hallmarks of one of its executive producers, Nathan Fielder, i.e.,…

Freeing us—hopefully forever—from having to think the ready-for-Newspeak phrase “Amazon’s Utopia” ever again, the streaming and retail giant has announced that it won’t be moving forward on a second season of the Gillian Flynn-penned sci-fi series. As THR notes, this particular cancellation comes after the series…

David Lynch seems to be having a pretty chill pandemic: Doing his regular weather reports, sculpting, releasing the occasional short film. (And no roommate drama, as far as we can tell.) Now, though, there are reports that Lynch might be gearing up for something a little more ambitious than telling us about his…

Look, the last thing you need from us is a reminder that this holiday season will be “a little different” this year. 2020 did its due diligence when it came to eviscerating a few of the basic tenets of Thanksgiving for a great many of us, like sizable gatherings, risk-free Black Friday preparation, and the…

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. While it’s been a truly, spectacularly, unprecedentedly crappy year, there remain a few precious things in this life that all stalwart souls can be thankful for on this November 26. Donald Trump got his ass kicked. There’s some promising COVID vaccine news. The new season of Big Mouth com…

HBO’s upcoming sci-fi series The Nevers has finally been forced to follow in the footsteps of so many of us tonight, taking a deep breath, acknowledging the good times we had, and then cutting Joss Whedon the fuck on out of our lives. This is per THR, which reports that the HBO show has “parted ways” with its…

It’s been more than 10 years since Universal released Couples Retreat, a largely forgettable step on Vince Vaughn’s descent into the swamp of romantic comedy blandness. In fact, the most truly n0table thing about the film—then and now, as it turns out—was its marketing, and, specifically, its international poster,…

Good* news for fans of the Harry Potter franchise, fantastic beasts, and other wizard shit today, as IndieWire reports that the crimes of Grindelwald (which already had their “being played by Johnny Depp” sentence commuted earlier this month) now also no longer include “not being played by Mads Mikkelsen.” WarnerBros…

A big day for thirsty people and the thirst they champion, as Michael B. Jordan—recently crowned People’s Sexiest Man Alive—has announced that he’s starting an OnlyFAns account, where he intends to show himself, quote, “Eating fruit, all types of crazy stuff, it’s going to get wild.” (For a given value of wild that…

Would you be more open to discussions about the public vs. private prison system if they came from the mouth of Rory Gilmore? If so, we recommend this Twitter account. There, you will find that carceral geographer and prison abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore has found an unlikely companion in a certain TV show that…

Today, November 25, 2020, the social media team at McDonald’s decided it was a fine time to send folks into a little existential tailspin about mortality.

Today the New York Times published in its opinion page a piece written by Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. To call it a story about her miscarriage is to dramatically limit the scope of her piece. It’s about grief, compassion, and the dangerous assumption that someone else can always do the caring. It’s also great…

Update, November 25: It’s Wednesday afternoon again, which means that it’s once again time for The A.V. Club’s Twitch channel to sail these rocky seas, hurl axes at people’s heads, and generally do a bunch of Vikings-type stuff in Ubisoft’s new Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. We’ll be showing off an early chunk of the…

Following a post-election show with Dave Chappelle at the helm, Saturday Night Live will return next month with episodes featuring hosts Jason Bateman, Timothée Chalamet, and alum Kristen Wiig.

Earlier this week, former movie star and enduring cultural curiosity Lindsay Lohan started popping up in a TikTok ad to smile directly into the hapless viewer’s soul and read a monologue. “O Famera president, it’s me Lohan,” she says in the video, captured and shared on Twitter by @kylie_gender. “I call upon thy name…

The one downside of the undying Steamed Hams meme—aside from the worry that one good Simpsons scene from a long time ago is occupying the creative energies of our generation’s best and brightest—is that it reminds us, always, that we cannot just order some steamed hams in real life. Principal Skinner may not be much…

If you’ve been curious about where an average David Lynch fan such as yourself might be able to watch Hugh Jackman (yes, that one) interview Katy Perry (also yes, that one) about her meditation habits in a virtual setting where Sting and Kesha are also performing, then we have the exact event for you: Meditate…

A wise old man once said, “Sometimes dead is better.” The true nature of this morbid prophecy was not fully actualized until this day with the unveiling of the teaser for Clifford The Big Red Dog, in which said Big Red Dog has been disturbingly transformed into a computer-magicked hell hound summoned from the depths…